Hi Everyone! I hope you had a great weekend. We had a busy Saturday reorganizing the barn and trying to make room for over 30 new furniture pieces. We’ve added most of them to our Upcoming Projects Page so please go check them out and let me know if you’d like one re-envisioned for your home. :)

Sunday, I googled the local newspaper’s, Times Union, calendar of events and the first thing that came up was a family fun day in Saratoga.  So, after church we decided to head up for a much needed family day of relaxation. We got to the address and there was nothing going on. We stopped to ask a couple people and everyone looked at us like we had three heads. So, I RE-read the article and it was for July of 2012!! What in the world!! lol. So we took that lemon and made some lemonade or something like that… We grabbed lunch at a local restaurant and went to Congress Park.
Sweetie tried to catch the ducks…

And our little guy wasn’t feeling too well so he watched the ducks from afar…

Then to Ben and Jerry’s for some ice cream! It was a fun family day after all. :)

Let’s talk furniture, shall we? One of our customers emailed me to see if I wanted to buy this dresser from her. The nice thing, I already had someone who wanted a dresser just like it. Yes please!

It was in great shape and made of solid wood. A perfect canvas for this idea! Carly wanted an entertainment center for her house in navy blue with numbers on it. I primed and painted this using Benjamin Moore’s Old Navy. My mom helped me by cutting the numbers out with her Cricut cutter. I traced them with a pencil and colored in the lines with a standard cream colored paint. It still looked a little too perfect for my style so I distressed it and glazed it a bit to give it more of a warn look and to also make the numbers not pop out as much on the navy.

Here’s the after picture!

Sorry the picture isn’t amazing. It was just too heavy to move AGAIN to take a picture of it. :) Oh, and if your first question is What are the numbers for??, just like almost everyone I’ve showed so far. Nothing, they are for nothing… we just like that look. Carly and Me. I like the sound of that – Carly and Me, sounds a book or maybe a movie. Maybe like Marley and Me. But Carly is as far from Marley as possible.  She’s HYSTERICAL… she gets my sense of humor completely so maybe that’s why I think she’s so funny. Oh, and her kids are as cute as can be. ;) Thank you for being so much fun all along the way, Carly. You made this a fun, creative piece for me.

Have I ever told you all how much I love navy and orange together? Well, I do! I noticed these on etsy by kari machal designs and I think you need to buy them for the living room, Carly.

I hope you all like it, too. If you do, share the love! :)

Happy Redesigns Everyone,
Sarah

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Well… dumpster diving may be a tiny bit of an exaggeration. My friend Jo Ann who reads all of these blog posts and makes sure I use “English” and don’t write something I could one day regret (except maybe that post about Sweetie peeing her pants at a customer’s house). My lil one may hate me for that in a few years.  Anyway, Jo Ann told me she would like a new media center designed from a dresser. You’ve seen those before either here or on Pinterest, right? I know you have… admit it you Pinterest addict. :)

Well, I found this baby along side a dumpster waiting for trash day. My hubby and I gladly picked it up for Jo Ann. Jo had a hard time seeing from the blah to the beautiful piece it could become, but I assured her if it wasn’t what she liked in the end, I would keep it for my own entertainment center. Have you been to my house? If you have, you know it’s been on my to do list for quite some time. Here it was… it had no hardware and quite a bit of grime and scratches, but it was also made from cherry wood, had dove tail drawers, and was a a good solid piece. Who could ask for more than that??

After we cleaned and sanded the grime away, I cleaned this baby up and got it ready for painting. We ended up taking off the bottom door and making a shelf inside for her DVD player and cable box. We also found these really cute boxes at Hobby Lobby and decided to buy them instead of baskets to give some color to the piece. If you go to Hobby Lobby,  you won’t find them unless you look for bright green and red with different knobs on the front. We ended up painting them to match two other walls in her living room/dining room space to bring some color to the piece. We bought the hardware from Hobby Lobby as well and had fun mixing and matching the pulls and handles.
We painted this one shade lighter than the non accent walls in her living room. It is Benjamin Moore’s carlisle cream . I just lightly distressed the whole piece and sealed it for a layer of protection. If you would like to see how I paint furniture check out this post. Ready to see the whole thing?

Don’t you love how a standard boring dresser can be turned into something amazing!! Sadly, Jo Ann decided she loved it and wanted to keep it. That’s too bad because I would have been delighted to keep it myself. ;) I hope you all enjoy it, too. If you do, let me know by commenting below sharing it with your friends.

Happy Redesigns Everyone,
Sarah

If you like what you see, please like our face book page to keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity.

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Last but not least, let us customize a furniture piece for you. We create custom furniture and will deliver for customers in upstate NY and will also ship throughout the US.  Send us a note with what you would like using our contact page. Or buy something that we’ve already designed from our furniture for sale page.

Did I just call something a Dresser Thingy?? Why yes I did! Why? Because I’m a weirdo. Why else? I don’t know what to call it really. I picked up this dresser one day and knew it needed lots of work, but I ALSO knew it could be “funcycled”. You all know by now that I like to make the not-so-lovely lovely again.

My pal Tiff-phony wanted something for her living room for extra storage and this dresser had the lines she wanted. Oh, by the way, when you become my friend, you will have to deal with my weird names for you and crazy sense of humor – even about trailer parks and short husbands. The plus side is I can make pretty furniture for you. lol So I’m fairly sure Tiff puts up with me for the “trash into treasures” that I make for her. ;)

We chatted a bit and she decided that she could make it work if she put baskets where the bottom drawer would have been. Her keen little eyes even noticed that one of the legs was broken – I didn’t even see that. Would you have? No problem, I told her we could fix it!  Piece picked -check! Now on to the color. She wanted a coral color and we went back and forth on whether to go dark or light. In my opinion, it’s really hard to find the right shade of coral. Usually I’m a Benjamin Moore snob but in this case, the color Tiff wanted could only be found in Valspar Dark Mango. I agreed that it was totally “her” and was willing to get out of the car AGAIN to run back into Lowes only because I didn’t have the kids with me that day. lol I love you, Tiff. :)

Paint color bought. Check. Up next, the knob choice. We looked at quite a few but Tiffany loved these from Anthropology. Good choice, good choice!

Yummy, right??? Love, Love!

OK, on to that little problem of the broken leg. Normally when I’m with my husband and he’s talking about wood types or repair, I feel like an idiot. I don’t know half of what he knows. Well… this time … get ready, I was able to teach HIM something. Wow oh wow! Did I feel like one cool lady walking the aisles of Lowes. ;) I told him you could buy new legs for furniture. He didn’t believe me at first so I showed him and he was pleasantly surprised. So, I hacked sawed the legs off and he put the new ones on for me. I tried, but I just couldn’t get it to work. I told you he’s better at repairs than I am.

Then I primed, painted and glazed this sexy lady. Are you ready for the after picture? Yup, I knew it. Me too! :) Here you go!

Happy Redesigns Everyone,

Sarah

If you like what you see, please like our face book page to keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity.

There is a box at the top right of this page to enter your email address in to receive notifications by email when I post something new on this blog. Please sign up today!

Last but not least, let us customize a furniture piece for you. We create custom furniture and will deliver for customers in upstate NY and will also ship throughout the US.  Send us a note with what you would like using our contact page. Or buy something that we’ve already designed from our furniture for sale page.